A thousand year old light



Sitting under the stars, wondering about the afars
Shining brighter than a thousand suns, playing with love like guns
My sparkle, fired, my attempts, tired
Raced with thoughts of when, regretting I didn't speak there and then
Dreams of our hands, tied together like festival wrist-bands
Your unaccompanied love freeing like a great war dove
Working proud, gracious actions speaking aloud
Your humour, haunting my head like a terminal tumour
Thinking unsure, you helping, what you're good for
A broken lock with a rusted key, my love you will set me free
Ageing into the night, living on like a thousand year old light.

About this poem

This poem is about two people, unsure if they love each other yet they want to but yet that 'unsureness' is what is driving them apart

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Written on October 08, 2022

Submitted by lm_b on November 11, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AABCADEFFFG
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 620
Words 106
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11

Lucas Rigney

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